完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Water costs money．In some places water is hard ．What when a town
has these problems？A small town in California found a happy ．
Very rain ever fell there．The town had no water ．The water it used was from a river 300 miles away．As more people live in the town water was needed．Now water to be brought in from 600 miles away．All these cost money．
The town a plan．It found to clean its “dirty” water．Once the cleaned water was reused many ways．Five lakes were built．Here people could swim and fish and go ．They have picnics in their new parks．Farmers had more water their crops．New factories can be built，now that they have the promise of ．
In most places，water is used and thrown ．The town that saved water
has saved the town！
1.A．supplying B．getting C．to get D．to supply
2.A．happens B．happening C. is happened D．happened
3.A．key B．answer C. answering D．way
4.A．little B．a little C．few D．a few
5.A．of itself B．of its own C．for its own D. for itself
6.A．fetch B．take C．brought in D．guided
7.A．come to B．came to C．coming to D．came for
8.A．many B．plenty of C．more D．many more
9.A．has B．had C．must D．needed
10.A．many B．a few C．a great many D．a lot of
11.A．put B．made C．supply D．noticed
12.A．a way B．ways C．an answer D．a key
13.A．for B．by C．at D．in
14.A．man-making B．man-make C．man-made D．man made
15.A．boating B．to boat C．to boating D．on boating
16.A．must B．could C．needed D．had to
17.A．as B．with C．for D．to
18.A．water enough B．enough water C. crops enough D．enough crops
19.A．off B．of C．away D．out of
20.A．it’s B．its C．one’s D．his
If you have a watch, don’t go to a watchmaker’s unless something is wrong with the machinery. Once I had a beautiful watch. And it had kept perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to wind it up (上发条). Next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to be set by the exact time. He examined it and said, “The regulator (快慢调整器) must be pushed up as your watch is four minutes slow.
I tried to stop him from doing so, but he didn’t listen and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it had left all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
I could do nothing but take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch at once, but he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I got my watch back from him, it began to slow down. And I failed to be in time for trains, business affairs, and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to a third watchmaker. When I was waiting for him to repair my poor watch, he took it to pieces and said that he would try to finish this work in three or four days. What I could do was to nod my head. After that, my watch went for half a day, and then stopped. So I kept taking my watch from one watchmaker to another. But each watchmaker disappointed me.
My watch had cost me two hundred dollars, but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy another watch, which I did.
1.The writer was sure that ___________.
A. you’d better not have your watch repaired if nothing has gone wrong with it
B. you’d better never have your watch repaired
C. you’d better not have your watch regulated
D. you’d better repair your watch yourself
2.The writer took his watch to the first watchmaker in order to ___________.
A. check (检查) it whether it kept good time
B. change some parts
C. have it set by the exact time
D. push up the regulator
3.The watch went faster than it used to be ___________.
A. after it was repaired
B. before it was repaired
C. during the time when it was being repaired
D. if it was repaired
4.Not long after his watch was regulated, he ___________ for the second time.
A. regulated it B. set it
C. repaired it D. had it repaired
5.The writer decided to buy another watch because ___________.
A. he would not spend more money on repairs
B. he didn’t like the old one
C. a new watch could keep good time
D. he had spent two hundred dollars on repairs
The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words mixed up (混合) and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can't understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor , you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don't be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your mistakes. It's better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don't understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is: "Don't be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes."
1.The writer thinks that the most important thing for you to learn a language is___________.
A. reading B. practicing
C. talking about it D. listening
2. What should you do in learning English?
A. Try to make some mistakes.
B. Avoid making any mistakes.
C. Remember as many new words as you can.
D. Use it as often as you cam
3. If people laugh at the mistakes you make, you should ___________.
A. be angry with them B. be angry with yourself
C. not care D. believe you are right
4.When you make a mistake, you should___________.
A. never make any mistakes again
B. tell others not to make the same mistake
C. punish yourself for making it
D. keep your sense of humor
5.The story tell us:" ___________."
A. It is normal (正常的) that we make some mistakes in learning English
B. Everyone must make mistakes
C. We can avoid making mistakes in learning a language
D. Laughing can help one learn English well
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave￡12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening,” he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through ___________.
A. doing business B. making whisky
C. cheating D. buying and selling land
2.The gift of money to the school suggests (暗示) that Johnson ___________.
A. had no children
B. was a strange man
C. was very fond of children
D. wanted people to know how rich he was
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out ___________.
A. what kind of whisky he had
B. how to live longer
C. how to become wealthy
D. in which part of the neck to have an injection
4.The newspaperman ___________.
A. should have reported what Johnson had told him
B. shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had
C. was eager to live a long life
D. should have found out what Johnson really meant
5.When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ___________.
A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening
B. he needn’t an injection in the neck
C. a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well
D. there was something wrong with his neck
The hand, the eyes, and the brain work together to make human beings different from other animals. No other animals have all three parts to work together. No animals can do what human beings can do. Humans can do many things and feel many things with the hand. The hand can hold onto things and make things because the thumb(大拇指) works with the fingers. This fifth finger is strong. Most animals don’t have thumbs. The thumb can press against the other fingers. Without a thumb to press against the fingers, it is difficult to hold onto anything. The thumb and fingers can also fit the flat surface of a box and the curved (不平的) surface of a pencil. We can feel that something is hot or cold, soft or hard, smooth or rough. The hand, with thumb and fingers, is one of the best tools we have. Most animals see a flat picture. Their eyes can only see how high and how wide something is. Some animals see a different picture with each eye. Some don’t see in colour. Humans see one picture with both eyes working together. We can see how high and how wide something is. We can also see how far in front of or in back of something a thing is. The brain tells other parts of the body how to work. Some of the things the body does are automatic; that is, we don’t have to think about them. For example, we don’t have to think to make our heart beat or our stomach work. The brain tells the eyes and hands how to make useful and beautiful things. That is how human beings become tool makers and artists. That is how human can have richer and better lives than other animals.
1.Human beings are different from other animals because ___________.
A. human beings have the hands, the eyes, and the brain working all the time
B. other animals also have hands, the eyes, and the brain
C. human beings work together with other animals
D. the hands, the eyes, and the brain of the human can work together
2.According to the passage, when you say you hold onto something, you mean______
A. you have it in your hand and keep it there by putting your fingers firmly round it
B. you have it in your arms and keep it there by putting your fingers firmly round it
C. you feel it with your hands
D. you press the fingers of your right hand against those of your left hand
3.The author tells us that no animals can do what humans can do. He gives quite a few facts to support the idea. One of them is that ___________.
A. most animals don’t see in colour
B. the humans see a thing with both eyes working together
C. only humans can see and how high and how wide a thing is
D. some animals can see only one picture
4.___________ is automatic.
A. Breathing B. Driving a car
C. Making a chair D. Playing football
5.People who make beautiful things are usually called ___________.
A. toolmakers B. artists
C. scientists D. drivers
I came here with your mother ________ to see you.
A. specially B. special
C. especially D. especial
